Extraordinary Rendition

News about Extraordinary Rendition, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Feb. 19, 2015

Poland will abide by European Court of Human Rights ruling ordering it to pay total of $262,000 in reparations to terrorism suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri; court ruled that Poland violated suspects' rights by handing them over to secret CIA prison in 2002. MORE

Nov. 20, 2014

British court rules that Yunus Rahmatullah, Pakistani man detained by British troops in Iraq in 2004 on suspicion of links to terrorism, can sue British government over his treatment; Rahmatullah says he was tortured on and off for a decade by British and American troops; case is second in less than month in which former terrorism suspect has been granted chance to seek damages. MORE

Oct. 25, 2014

Polish government appeals ruling by European Court of Human Rights that country violated the rights of two terrorism suspects by transferring them to interrogation site in northeast Poland run by Central Intelligence Agency; ruling was first involving a European country that had participated in CIA's 'extraordinary rendition' program. MORE

Jul. 25, 2014

European Court of Human Rights rules that Poland violated rights of terrorism suspects Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri by allowing their transfer to secret Central Intelligence Agency in Poland, where they were tortured. MORE

Mar. 12, 2014

Italy's highest court upholds guilty verdicts against three United States defendants in 2003 extraordinary rendition kidnapping and torture of Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, known as Abu Omar; decision ends only prosecution to date against Bush administration’s practice of abducting terror suspects and taking them to other countries. MORE

Dec. 20, 2013

Editorial condemns fact that, dozen years after Sept 11 terrorist attacks, official reports about the detention and torture that came later are still being kept secret; holds Obama administration has a duty to make public these classified Senate Intelligence Committee reports; also calls for release of official Central Intelligence Agency response to report and internal CIA study. MORE

Sep. 14, 2013

Former Central Intelligence Agency station chief Robert Seldon Lady is seeking a pardon from Italian Pres Giorgio Napolitano for his 2009 kidnapping conviction in the extraordinary rendition of a Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr off the streets of Milan. MORE

Jul. 20, 2013

Former Central Intelligence Agency officer Robert Seldon Lady, who was detained in Panama in connection with a criminal conviction in Italy for his role in 2003 abduction of Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, is released and flown to the United States. MORE

Jul. 19, 2013

Robert Seldon Lady, former Central Intelligence Agency station chief who was convicted in Italy for his role in 2003 abduction of Egyptian-born Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, is arrested in Panama; Nasr was emblematic in debate over American intelligence practice of extraordinary rendition. MORE

Jul. 19, 2013

Political storm unleashed by whirlwind expulsion of dissident Kazakh oligarch Mukhtar Ablyazov's wife and young daughter further strains relations within Italy's fragile coalition government; Kazakhstan had issued extradition request for Ablyazov, who is outspoken critic of country's president, and some see Italy's action as attempt to curry favor with gas-rich trading partner. MORE

Feb. 18, 2013

Editorial laments surprising and alarming news from Open Society Justice Initiative report, which reveals extent of Central Intelligence Agency's use of extraordinary rendition; notes many countries, including some leading democracies, are complicit in America's brutal treatment of terror suspects. MORE

Feb. 13, 2013

Appeals court in Milan sentences former military intelligence chief Nicolo Pollari to 10 years in prison for his role in CIA abduction of Egyptian Muslim cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr under rendition program begun after Sept 11 terrorist attacks. MORE

Feb. 5, 2013

Report by Open Society Justice Initiative documents broad international involvement in American campaign against Al Qaeda, showing that some 54 countries helped facilitate Central Intelligence Agency's secret detention, rendition and interrogation program in years after Sept 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. MORE

Feb. 2, 2013

Italian appeals court in Milan vacates acquittals for three Americans, and convicts them in absentia in 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric as part of CIA’s extraordinary rendition program for terrorism suspects. MORE

Sep. 20, 2012

Italy’s supreme court upholds convictions of 23 Americans in the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, in first case to successfully challenge the contentious American program of extraordinary rendition; ruling opens way for extradition of the defendants, who were tried in absentia, but legal experts doubt Italian government will initiate proceedings any time soon. MORE

Apr. 19, 2012

Lawyers for a Libyan military commander, Abdel Hakim Belhaj, say that they have begun legal action against a former British foreign secretary, Jack Straw, following accusations that Straw was directly involved in secret rendition operations that delivered Belhaj and another man to Col Muammar el-Qaddafi’s secret police in 2004. MORE

Feb. 1, 2012

Libyan men Abdel Hakim Belhaj and Sami al-Saadi sue Mark Allen, the former counterterrorism chief of Britain’s MI6 intelligence service, which they say colluded with the Central Intelligence Agency in secret rendition operations that delivered them to Col Muammar el-Qaddafi’s secret police. MORE

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